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Example sentences for: surly

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(Or the president's surly video apology, where you try to analyze the squint as he says, "I did not have sex with that woman ...
The complaints covered the waterfront: baggage problems, surly flight attendants, mysteriously canceled flights, billing atrocities.
Under Brill's system, I could pay $20-$40 a year to license a used revolver; take a joke of a test administered by a surly, bored, bureaucrat; and carry a concealed weapon anywhere in the country.
Indeed, the grandeur and flashing wit of the surly Florentine and the enigmatic Englishman have much in common.
We humans deserved a better spokesman at this epochal point in our ongoing voyage of humility; a half century from now, surly, street-tough androids will routinely start bar brawls over the bitchy tone of Kasparov's remarks.